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Check Out Guidelines Before Billing for Psych Evals

Published on Fri Sep 18, 2020

Question: How often is it possible to bill 90791 and/or 90792 per Medicare guidelines? Codify Subscriber Answer: CPT® codes 90791 (Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation) and 90792 (Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services) describe two different services where your provider collects information about a patient’s present and past behavior and obtains a past family, medical, and social history for a diagnostic evaluation of that [...]
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